Track 7: Partnerships
Time: 31 October 2002, 11:30 Location: Salle A Chair: Peter Sissons Presenters/ Participants: The Hon J. Hugh Faulkner, Sustainable Project Management
Dr. Peter Hardi, International Institute for Sustainable Development
Mr. Alex Lockwood, One World International Reporter: John Copland (ICVolunteers) Languages: English Key words: Sustainable development, enterprise, training, information, knowledge-sharing, Media Action International, Covalence, SUIT, project management, social responsibility
During this 15 minute session, Peter Sissons introduced the three presenters, each of whom gave a very brief overview of their project and indicated the outlines of the more complete descriptions they would present in the afternoon workshop sessions. The presenters emphasized the practical issues involved in operating these partnerships.
The Hon Mr. Faulkner of Sustainable Project Management presented his organization (SPM) which handles infrastructure projects costing less than million in the waste, water and energy spheres. Their principal vehicle is a Mixed -Capitol Public Private partnership (MC-PPP) whose elements are:
- The public sector as an investor
- The reduction of transactional costs
- Financing borne by the project itself
- Possibility of replication
Using the above process he was presenting two Waste-to-Energy projects, one in the small population area of Apia, Samoa and the second in the million plus area of Batangas Bay in the Philippines.
Dr Peter Hardi of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) described the Dashboard of Sustainability, a visually engaging online tool that displays the primary dimensions of sustainability and provides both quantitative and qualitative information about progress toward (or away from)sustainability.
It was hoped that Dashboard would become the tool of choice for anyone needing indicators, and he noted that the system was flexible enough to be custom tailored to a variety of users in both public and private sectors.
Mr Alex Lockwood of OneWorld International presented the Syndicated News Service, a Human Rights and Sustainable Development Online News Syndication Model.
The general objectives of the model are to move the media out of its normal comfort zone and into the real world where voices from the South can compete and be heard. More specifically the project will promote dissemination of human rights and sustainable development issues through a widespread syndicated online distribution of original news stories both inside and outside of the established civil society channels, and to work with major commercial news organizations to influence change from within on mainstream news reporting on these issues. In the long term, it is hoped that the media could be pulled into the partnership that now often exists between the public sector and NGOs.
As this session was devoted solely to brief presentations there were no questions or comments from the floor.
